Fed Appeals Court Grant Terri's Parents Petition for Rehearing

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[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT WILL LET TERRI'S PARENTS FILE A PETITION FOR REHEARING FOR AN INJUNCTION TO REINSERT FEEDING TUBE... BREAKING

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Moderator update:

Court Says Yes To Schiavo Parents

March 30, 2005

(CBS/AP) A federal appeals court early Wednesday granted Terri Schiavo's parents the right to file a petition for rehearing for an injunction that could allow their daughter's feeding tube to be reconnected.

The ruling came just after midnight from a federal appeals court in Atlanta.

On Tuesday, Schiavo's 12th full day without food or water, the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed with her parents and joined conservatives in calling for state lawmakers to order her feeding tube reinserted.

The former Democratic presidential candidate was invited by Schiavo's parents to meet with activists outside Schiavo's hospice. His arrival was greeted by some applause and cries of "This is about civil rights!"

"I feel so passionate about this injustice being done, how unnecessary it is to deny her a feeding tube, water, not even ice to be used for her parched lips," he said. "This is a moral issue and it transcends politics and family disputes."

As the Schiavo deathwatch drags on, CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann spoke with two families who grappled with the same issues as the Schindlers and Michael Schiavo. On one side are Dorothy and Michael Brocato, who have provided care for their brain-damaged daughter Lisa, who suffered brain damage from a heart attack 15 years ago.

"We have devoted our lives to taking care of Lisa, says her mother. The Brocatos are sympathetic to the Schindler's wish to keep Terri Schiavo alive

"I love her. I love her. I couldn't picture not having her around me,'' says Dorothy Brocato.

Ron Oister has watched the Schiavo drama play out from a very different perspective. When Oister's father was essentially brain-dead, his son's wrenching decision was to let his father go.

"It was very hard,'' Oister told Strassmann. "That was my father. And he was in front of me. And I knew he could never return to what he had been."

Oister says Schiavo's parents helped create this needless public spectacle because they refused to face their hard reality.

"She died then, not now. My own experience would say that one ends life at that time."

Jesse Jackson's visit provided an emotional boost to Schiavo's parents and siblings, who have maintained that Schiavo would want to be kept alive. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, insists he is carrying out her wishes by having the feeding tube pulled.

Mary Schindler, Terri Schiavo's mother, later made a terse but emotional appeal to Michael Schiavo: "Michael and Jodi, you have your own children. Please, please give my child back to me." Michael Schiavo and fiancee Jodi Centonze have two children, born long after Terri Schiavo fell into paralysis.

Although supporters of the Schindlers have claimed the dehydrated woman is being denied comfort measures such as ice chips for her dry mouth or balm for chapped lips, George Felos, the husband's attorney, defended how Schiavo is being cared for.

"Obviously, the parents and the siblings are desperate. Desperation may lead to different perceptions," Felos told CNN. "I can only tell you what I've seen, and Terri is dying a very peaceful, cared-for death." Felos did not return phone messages seeking comment from The Associated Press.

Jackson said he asked Michael Schiavo for permission to see the brain-damaged woman but was denied. He also telephoned black legislators in a last-ditch effort to bring back a bill that would prohibit severely brain-damaged patients from being denied food and water if they didn't express their wishes in writing. Lawmakers rejected the legislation earlier this month and appeared unlikely to reconsider it.

One of those contacted by Jackson, Democratic state Sen. Gary Siplin, said he told Jackson the issue had been "thoroughly discussed." Senate Democratic leader Les Miller added, "I have voted. It's time to move on."

The chief sponsor of the measure, state Sen. Daniel Webster, said he knew of no changed votes and that Jackson's efforts may have come too late.

"If he could sway votes — and I'm certain he may be able to — it would have been helpful if he had done that a little earlier" said Webster, a Republican. "We're running out of time. To do it now is not as timely as a couple of weeks ago would have been."

Bob Schindler described his daughter as "failing" following his visit Tuesday.

"She still looks pretty darn good under the circumstances," Schindler said. "You can see the impact of no food and water for 12 days. Her bodily functions are still working. We still have her."

First lady Laura Bush also commented on the case Tuesday, saying the government was right to have intervened on behalf of Schiavo.

"It is a life issue that really does require government to be involved," Bush said aboard a plane bound for Afghanistan, where she was to promote education and women's rights.

During Jackson's visit, a man was tackled to the ground by officers when he tried to storm into the hospice, police said. He became the 47th protester arrested since the feeding tube was removed March 18. The man had two bottles of water with him but did not reach the hospice door, police said.

Doctors have said Terri Schiavo, 41, would probably die within a week or two of the tube being removed. She suffered catastrophic brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped for several minutes because of a chemical imbalance apparently brought on by an eating disorder.

The parents also lost another round in the courts Tuesday when an appeals court upheld a pervious ruling by Judge George Greer that blocked the Department of Children and Families from intervening in the case.




Court Says Yes To Schiavo Parents

[Republic Rocker]

Oh My..just heard this on the news....Something about the courts being negligent......???

[PhiKapMom]

I personally think it was Rick Santorum who made the difference not Jackson who kept saying he had flipped two Senators who no one can find. Jackson wasn't involved in this appeal.

Santorum made it clear about the de novo review not Jackson.

[TexKat]

Jesse Jackson made it clear that blacks would want somethings before they would vote Republican.

Link please.

Please tell me where Jesse Jackson said that blacks would want something.

[ordinaryguy]

And starvation causes brain damage.

[MJY1288]

I believe that if they are willing to reconsider the petition, they must be intending to save the evidence.... That means keeping Terri Alive. I believe we will see the feeding tube reinserted by noon tomorrow

[TAdams8591]

That's "after the collapse" (not hospital).

[PhiKapMom]

It was Rick Santorum who blasted the Federal Courts for not doing the review. Jackson kept talking about the Senate not the Federal Courts.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Hmmmmm? Being from New York - I'm already suspicious that Hillary is behind this move and while I'm happy for this - I'm not going to be happy if Hillary is involved.

Don't assume that The Empire Journal, being based in New York, has anything to do with Hilary. TEJ has been working on Terri's case since at least November to help uncover the many improprieties about the judiciary involved in Terri's case, namely Judge Greer and his surrounding cohorts in Pinellas county.

[drlevy88]

Ghouls really spit at seeing the sun come up in the middle of their festivities, don't they.

[DakotaRed]

""Ms. Schiavo has had a guardian, independent of her husband, looking out for her interests.""

In the DOJ complaint filing I posted a link to back at #50, the guardian ad litem recommended against removing the feeding tube. He was dismissed the following day, by Greer.

[Tax Government]

If the government relents and "saves" Terri, it is to somehow avoid the prospect of a $150,000,000 wrongful death lawsuit and treble damages against the state of Florida, the hospice, and all the players.

If I were the Schindlers, I would be sharpening the long knives right now, and hiring the best of the best lawyers on the planet.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

But medically won't she need more than a feeding tube. That probably will be the downfall of any intervention now. I pray she has been preserved enough to come back through tube feeding alone.

Pray to St. Expeditus believers. No joke he is a saint named in the very first martyrology of the Church

[incredulous joe]

Bernadette Soubirous, the seer of Lourdes is most impressively well-preserved - and beautiful - I'm a newbie and still trying to figure posting

Here's a link

http://home.inreach.com/bstanley/berndett.htm

[Lauren BaRecall]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh a visitor! A member of the Felos Coven!

[Army Air Corps]

I am glad that my sunday School Hebrew could do some good for you! Shalom.

[Utah Girl]

I read that Terri's father had her makeup and hair done for a long time after she was disabled.

[Raycpa]

I am sorry that you and others are unable to talk about this issue in a civilized manner.

Yes, we must not resort to uncivil discourse, like umm telling others that they are guilty of torture. Yes, that would not be behavior becoming a freeper.

[drlevy88]

No, this stays in the Federal courts, it's a completely different authority system.

[oceanperch]

I think I need to say this, hopefully I am not repeating someone else 25x's over.

Most all of us are beyond outraged here at FR about Terri's murder.

But......We need to stop turning on one another.

As outrageous as Terri being killed is (I know how much this hurts as I have been my quadroplegic medically fragile son's careprovider for 26yrs per his desire to live) we are letting the Devil get a foot hold by how this is tearing us apart and eating at each other!

I am just as guilty jumping on fellow freepers due to how this is hurting my heart and lashing out.
Can we try to be more civil to one another through this, please?

Thank You.

[MJY1288]

When Courts are considered being negligent, they tend to act very fast. I see a feeding tube hooked back up yo Terri Schiavo by mid day tomorrow